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Azure Active Directory Connect Upgrade In-place or Swing Migration

In this article we are going to discuss different methods that you can use to upgrade your Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect installation to the latest release. I have been reading lot of queries and question mark over the type of upgrade process or approach should be taken by the Architects or an Engineer managing the AAD Connect software. First of all, it is very important that the environment and specially the servers  are in line with the current and the latest releases of Azure AD Connect. Microsoft is constantly making upgrades to AADConnect, and these upgrades include fixes to security issues and bugs, as well as serviceability, performance, and scalability improvements. As been on the field working for different clients the issues and confusion is whether to do in place upgrade or do a swing migration, Microsoft states with small environment and not many complex settings usually in-place upragde should be carried out. But in my opinion I do not like to disturb the e

Windows 11 22H2 RDP disconnects and freezes randomly

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Namaste Everyone. I have been following and reading many forums with the similar issue of RDP session freezing or either getting disconnected frequently. Logs have not proved anything exceptional or drastic changes in the environment, however I was able to test this in my lab and have traced some Network Logs via the Wireshark and could see retransmision packets between the client and the server. This all started after the update to Windows 11 22H2. The resolution is to either rollback the 22H2 on the client or apply this registry or ADMX setting via the Group Policy. My theory is that after looking at the logs in my client is that the problem is due to the fact that the RDS connection is trying to connect over UDP and is not trying to connect over TCP if the UDP fails or gets block for some reason. So either you can manually set the registry in the client by following the below step: Browse to the below Registry Path with administrator account: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows